Minotaur (2005)

In an iron age village 8 youth must be sacrificed every 5 years to a bloodthirsty monster the minotaur. When his love is lost to the sacrifice theo believes she is still alive & sets off to the palace intent on killing the evil bull-god. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/22/2007 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Product Description

Has anyone here reviewing actually seen the DVD?

Amazon is not selling the movie as it was on TV, they are selling the DVD (which is R-rated). Nothing actually shown on Scify could get an R if it's life depended on it. SO, I'd love to see a review on the DVD itself and the film as on the DVD. But, I do not plan to be the first to buy it.
Please resist reviewing DVD's based on the film as it showed on any station with advertisers. June 20, 2008

Done before

The story is some rewrite of an ancient greek story of the minotaur. The story is weak, the acting and character development is poor, and the special effects are ordinary.

Give a miss October 15, 2007

Tragic Waste of Film

Upon finishing this movie, 2 questions come to mind: 1)WHY did they bother to make this?? and 2)HOW did the 2 idiots that wrote this moronic screenplay get any employment in the film industry?? For starters, why did they not make this closer to the legend and set it in ancient Greece instead of "the iron age"? I mean, "Theo" from the village of "Thena", sheesh! I know people today aren't as educated as they should be, but the writers display an absolute contempt for their audience that is unforgiveable. And did they think we would care about a bunch of annoying, 25 yr old "teenagers" who are apparently too mentally challenged to shut the hell up after the first one or two get killed because they wouldn't, well, shut the hell up? Did they think we were stupid enough to believe that? Not half as stupid as the writers who couldn't come up with anything better. And the saddest part is that this flick doesn't even have enough heart to be unintentionally funny. One would think the director would have fired the writers or at least tried to improve on the script, but, no. Apparently, the director had also suffered from oxygen deprivation in his youth.

Some have mentioned that this is a bigger budget cut above the typical sci-fi network production. Unfortunately, though they threw more money at it, they used the same, no-vision incompetents that make all their other pathetic movies, so they might as well have flushed that money down the toilet. Too bad, because the FX work on the monster was actually pretty decent. Interesting take on the minotaur, too (instead of a human body with a bull's head, it is a quadruped bull with deformed human-like features). Saying that this one is better than Sci-Fi's other movies is no compliment at all. There should be a law that all of their DVDs should be prominently marked as such. I have never seen even a halfway good movie come out of them. Not one. Every Sci-Fi channel movie is some dumbed down, retarded teen-filled mess trying to reach grade B status and failing miserably. WHY do they insist on making more?? I can't find anyone stupid enough to like them. This movie didn't even make a good beer and chips flick, it was too frustrating. What a waste of Rutger Hauer, Tony Todd, and Ingrid Pitt. Rent at your own risk, but don't say you weren't warned. And don't even think of buying it, if you value your self respect. Fifteen thumbs down.

Update, jan 2008: Please read the comments to my review in order to get the perspective of one of the screenwriters of this film. Upon reading Mr. Green's comments, I was going to delete this review, but I've decided to leave it just so people can read what one of the scriptwriters has to say, and so people can catch a glimpse of how this movie business sadly works all too often. Thank you. August 12, 2007

Major disappointment

How could I resist a movie starring Rutger Hauer and Ingrid Pitt? And based on the Minotaur legend, it sounded very interesting. And it's obvious that a lot of money and effort has gone into making the scenery. Unfortunately, that's the only good thing that can be said about the movie. It's a mystery how anyone could greenlight such a bad, incoherent screenplay. It starts out okay but goes downhill very quickly and after less than half an hour you're just hoping the movie will end soon. And for Mr. Hauer and Ms. Pitt, they don't have more than a couple of minutes of screen time. "Minotaur" is definately not worth wasting time and money on. June 27, 2007

Loved it

Great Adventure Film. I thought the beast was superbly rendered. The acting was hap hazzard but a superb Friday night watch.

February 19, 2007

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